Welcome to part 4 of our Squidoo series and now that you sure you have a nice niche its time to start making your money making lens. Most people will set up there lens in around 10 minutes and we have covered the basics already.
A recap of the important stuff:
1. Register with Squidoo.
2. Use the site wizard to create your lens.
3. When taken to this page, select the do your own thing option.
4. Choose a keyword rich title for your lens.
5. Select the URL you want your Squidoo.com page to point to; tmake sure you place your keywords in it.
6. Next choose your lens keywords.
7. You will then be taken to a page that asks you how you want to get paid. This page sets up your account to pay you for any income you receive from clicks through Adsense, eBay, Amazon or other commissions.
8. Reconfirm your content.
Design Tips for your lens
The layout of a lens can really determine how well it will rank. Once logged in you can edit your layout the ay you want it to be. Be sure to include a Biography visitors like these. If you want you could include a link to your blogs Bio or an about us page.
Once you create your bio, you will have the choice of making your bio your “default” bio. Unless you want all your lens pages to share the same bio, you should not check this box. You may want a different bio especially if you plan to promote blogs or affiliate pages marketing different types of products. You want to highlight your skills and expertise in each unique area.
One thing you do not want to do is Spam the site. To avoid an accusation of Spam, most Squidoo.com experts recommend you limit the accounts you have on a subject to 10, and offer more than one product for each account.
The more products you offer, the more you look like an expert, and the less you look like a self-promoting bully out to promote just one product or site. Remember, most “experts” are also linked with multiple sites and products, so you want to offer a good portfolio of information so people perceive you have a wide knowledge base in several different areas.
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#1 by Dennis Edell on June 25th, 2008
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The design tips are great, thanks!
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#2 by Luxury Destinations on June 27th, 2008
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Nice tips: Ive used squidoo a bit and its a shame the spammers mean that sometimes the site falls out of favour with google – though its seems to be on the up again. Good tip about not setting up a default profile I had missed that thanks! Are you doing a hubpage series too?
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